At the Undugu Society of Kenya Raphael teaches Harrison how to upload the photos he has taken.

The Digital Story Telling Project, developed by AP Peace Fellow Kristina Rosinsky, helps disadvantaged and marginalized youth share their voices through blogging and photography. Read Kristina's blog.

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On July 29, 2008, 10-year-old Ahmed Moussa, pictured here several days earlier, was shot in the head and killed by Israeli soldiers in Ni'lin, a village in the West Bank. Israeli soldiers opened fire with live ammunition on a demonstration against the construction of the security fence through Ni'lin, during which the Palestinian protesters were armed with stones. Thousands of people came to Ni'lin for Ahmed's funeral; the procession was tear-gassed by Israeli soldiers after several Hamas youth threw stones at them. Read Willow's blog.

As part of the Landmine Survivors Network Jordan's efforts to integrate disabled youth and survivors with non-disabled Jordanian youth, these children work together to improve their local community. The idea behind the project is that community service will help the disabled children integrate with other youth, as well as with the community as a whole. The project promoted social inclusion and focused on what all the children had in common, despite their disabilities. Read Krystal's blog.

In Ni'lin, children like these live under a constant threat of violence and unrest as the Israeli army frequently besieges the town and closes the entrance to the village. The women of Ni'lin recently held a non-violent demonstration protesting the proposed construction of the security wall through the village, and the children of the town attempted to barricade the main street against Israeli construction and military vehicles with rocks and branches. Recently, a 10-year-old boy was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against the construction of the wall. Read Willow's blog.

Members of the Dalit caste, the historically traditional "untouchables," still face extreme discrimination and poverty in rural Nepal. Villages are structured so that Dalit families like this one are the farthest from the central amenities of the village such as water pumps, health centers, and schools. They have no electricity or running water, and many times not even an outhouse. Read Heather's blog.

The women of the town of Ni'lin protest the construction of the separation wall through the village. They were restrained physically by soldiers after asking to peacefully go back to their land, and were gassed with tear gas and hit with rifle butts by the Israeli Army. The wall through Ni'lin is being constructed for the safety and security of the Israeli settlement on Palestinian land that can be seen in the background. Later, the men in the area used rocks and branches to create a roadblock that would slow the passage of the machines that will build the wall. If the construction is completed, the village of Ni'lin will lose 20% of its land. Read Hannah's blog.

These women and their children are beneficiaries of community-based rehabilitation efforts from the Blind Education and Rehabilitation Development Organization (BERDO), an AP partner in Bangladesh. BERDO provided them micro-credit and loans, improving their daily living conditions and allowing them to better support their families in the rural village of Banaripara. The mother with the disabled child in the center of the photo is one of the beneficiaries of the project. Read Danita's blog.

When the Chioxy dam was built, the Guatemalan government moved the families who lived along the river to resettlement villages, where they were provided with houses and land. However, the new land was not nearly as fertile as the families' old land, and many have struggled to survive ever since. As the families expanded, more houses were built, and the men were forced to look for work as agricultural laborers. The work is not steady or reliable, and even with the extra wages it is still difficult to make ends meet and feed a whole family. Read Heidi's blog.

This woman waits at a traveling clinic to be evaluated for a possible hysterectomy that could cure her late-stage uterine prolapse. Unfortunately, she was unable to get the operation because of an infection caused by the implantation of a rubber ring that would keep her uterus inside her body until she could procure an operation. The uterine prolapse keeps her in almost constant pain, prevents her from eating full-sized meals, and makes it difficult to walk or carry heavy loads. Because of the prolapse, she cannot do the manual work of other Nepali women and she was essentially disowned by her family. Her only option now is to raise the $300-$500 herself for the hysterectomy once her infection disappears, yet the prospects for this seem dim. Read Nicole's blog

Delhi's wastepickers provide an important service to the city by sorting the recyclable trash from the non-recyclable items. After sorting through the trash, they then sell it to local junk dealers. Unlike the wastepickers, the private garbage companies do not sort the recyclables out of the trash, and instead leave everything in landfills that are rapidly reaching capacity. The wastepickers are discriminated against by the government and harassed by local police, despite the invaluable service they provide. AP Partner Chintan is working to defend the wastepickers and organize them to better protect their rights. Read Mackenzie's blog.

AP Partner, Supporting Kids in Peru (SKiP) advocates on behalf Peru's many disadvantaged children and helps them to enroll in school. SKiP provides money to cover school expenses, which are generally too high for an extremely poor family to afford. They also provide tutoring services and extra help for those children who require extra support. In addition to these services, SKiP also works to improve the economic and psychological situation of the childrens' families. Read Jennifer's blog.

Ever-decreasing land fertility in Eastern Nepal remains one of the most pressing issues for subsistence farmers in the region. To provide these farmers some measure of food security, AP partner the Nepal Social Development and People's Empowerment Center (NESPEC) is working with other local NGOs to create farmers' groups that would essentially serve as microfinance cooperatives. So far, NESPEC has organized about 45 cooperatives with 25 farmers each. Read Raka's blog.

After the Second Intifada, the Israeli government began building a wall separating the Israeli and Palestinian territories, partially along the 1949 Jordanian/Israeli armistice line, but mostly through Palestinian-held territory. The erection of the wall continues to be highly controversial in the international community, and it is referred to by many as a "segregation" wall or an "apartheid" wall. Protest graffiti covers the Palestinian side of the wall, much of it referring to the peace process and the state-sponsored discrimination. Some of the most famous artwork adorning the wall is by British graffiti-guerrilla artist Banksy, who decorated portions of the Palestinian side of the wall and alongside Palestinian refugee camps. This particular painting is on a wall in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem. Read Hannah's blog.

July 11th marked the 13th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, which saw the deaths of over 8,000 Muslim men and boys at the hands of Bosnian Serbs under the control of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic. This year, 307 recently-identified victims were reburied by their families in the presence of over 40,000 mourners and supporters on the site. Among those who attended the memorial were AP Peace Fellows Shweta Dewan, working with AP partner BOSFAM, and Janet Rabin, working with the Women in Black Network of Serbia, another AP partner in the region. Read Janet's blog.

The German NGO, Solidarity Service International (SODI), has been working with local authorities for the past ten years in Quang Tri province, Vietnam to clear the region from landmines and UXOs left behind from the Vietnam War. In 2003, they completed work on a resettlement village called Tan Dinh, which is home to 100 families. In Vietnam, SODI works as part of the Landmine Working Group alongside AP Partner Landmine Survivors Network-Vietnam. Read Chi's blog.

Wastepickers account for approximately 1% of Delhi's population, yet they are shunned and harassed by the rest of the Indian population for being part of the "untouchable" caste. This social and economic discrimination is especially difficult for the wastepicker children, most of whom do not attend school for lack of money to pay school fees and for uniforms andsupplies. Organizations like AP partner Chintan work to organize the wastepickers and provide essential services, while attempting to end the institutionalized discrimination and intolerance that wastepickers face every day. Read Mackenzie's blog.

Every summer, Survivor Corps Jordan (formerly the Landmine Survivors Network) organizes a summer camp where survivors from across the country can interact with children from a private high school in Amman. Together, the children participate in a community service project aimed at facilitating community and social engagement. Although the children were initially hesitant to intermingle, by the end friendships had formed between disabled children, like the girl on the right, and others from the school in Amman, like the girl on the left. Read Krystal's blog.

Living under Israeli occupation is not easy for anyone in Palestine, but it is especially difficult for children. Many times, curfews and other restrictions prevent them from playing outside or even regularly attending school. Since the erection of the "security fence," many families have been cut off from the land that provides them with a steady income; travel restrictions and sanctions have stopped goods from coming into many areas. This girl lives in Ni'lin, a village which is currently under military curfew; the Israeli army prevented the entire family from leaving the house for five days. Read Willow's blog.

In Western Nepal, two women walk to Sharangkot, a small hill with views of the famous Annapurna Himalayan mountain range. Although the majority of Nepalis live outside of urban areas, even the rural areas are beginning to industrialize and modernize. Read Heather's blog.

Street children are ever-present on the streets of Nairobi, despite the efforts of organizations like AP Partner, the Undugu Society of Kenya. Some children are forced to leave home to find work, others run away, choosing an uncertain life on the streets over abusive relationships at home. Living on the streets, they have almost no access to services like healthcare and education, and the cycle of poverty is almost universally inescapable. Life is even harder for this young girl, who is responsible for protecting and feeding her young daughter in addition to herself. Read Kristina's blog.

It is difficult to navigate Delhi by foot because many of its sidewalks are buried in trash. The only ones willing to sort through the garbage littering Delhi's streets are wastepickers who form the lowest level of the informal recycling system. As beneficial as wastepickers are, however, their livlihood is being threatened as the Delhi government considers privatizing waste collection, thereby depriving ppor wastepickers of their sole source of income. Read Paul's blog.

The Women’s Affairs Technical Committee (WATC) in Ramallah, Palestine launched a book called “Northern Sanabel” which documents the experience of twelve women who were provided training in order to fight for their rights more effectively. Sanabel is the name of WATC’s project to empower rural women through training in areas such as leadership skills, conflict resolution and networking, among other things. Above, eleven of the women featured in the book celebrate its publication. Read Hannah's blog.

Survivors of the Rio Negro massacres offer testimony to consultants from the Organization of American States (OAS), ADIVIMA and COCAHICH in order to verify demands for reparations. In Pacux, a resettlement village mostly inhabited by Rio Negro survivors, locals recounted their memories of the massacres and spoke about the changes in their daily lives caused by the resettlement and the massacres that left many children orphaned and many women widowed. Those who testified described the Guatemalan government's broken promises and the harsh conditions in Pacux. Read Heidi's blog

Palestinian farmers who have cultivated land that has been in their family for generations are now being forced to move due to the creation of a new settlement. In 1967 Israel annexed Al Walaja (the land owned by farmers) and made them part of the Jerusalem municipality in the 1970s, thereby denying the farmers legal access to their own farms. Above, one of those farmers left his family behind to come live in a small shelter on his land to prevent it from being taken. Read Rianne's blog.

The International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) is still working to identify victims of the Srebrenica (1995) and Zvornik (1992) massacres who are buried in the mass graves that scatter the region. As the victims are identified, many are reburied by their family members on July 11, the anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. There are 1,500 cases currently being processed, and 15 mass graves that have not yet been exhumed. Above, personal effects of victims are on display at an ICMP cold storage area. Read Shweta's blog.

African peasants that have migrated to Kampala, Uganda to escape poverty, danger and discrimination still cannot overcome one stigma attached to them: the perceived curse of their indigenous roots. It is this ignorance that presents the biggest challenge to migrants hoping to better their lives in a new place. Above, an orphan at the Watoto Orphanage in the Kyebando District of Kampala faces an uncertain future. Read Juliet's blog.

Blind and visually impaired children from the School of the Happy World, run by BERDO, take a rare field trip to the zoo. In spite of the poor conditions for the animals at the zoo, the children led each other around the zoo and enjoyed their day outside. Read Danita's blog.

Chi Vu snapped this picture of dawn near Da Nang while on an overnight train from Saigon to the Quang Binh province. Now that she has arrived, she will be working with Survivor Corps (formerly the Landmine Survivors Network) in the region. Read Chi's blog.

The Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) has opened schools to educate Kenyan youth as part of its initiative to reduce drug abuse and criminal activity. However, in a country that has seen increasing violence following elections, many have been displaced from their homes and are now living in makeshift camps, such as the one above, thereby adding to the issues that USK must address. Read Kristina's blog.

For those living in the resettlement village of Pacux in Guatemala, natural resources are hard to come by as a result of the loss of land due to the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam. Many of them live in homes, such as the one above, that provide little shelter and even less comfort. Read Heidi's blog.